Alwaght- Iraq's Ministry of Defense announced that On Wednesday the Number two man of ISIS terrorist group, Abu Alaa al-Afri, killed in an air strike in west of Mosul, in Nineveh province.
The ministry said in a statement ,”Based on accurate intelligence, an air strike by theinternationalcoalition forces targeted the second-in-command of ISIS, Abdul-Rahman Mustafa, also known as Abu Alaa al-Afari, in the area of al-Aidiyah in Tal-Afar District,” IraqiNews.com reported. The district of Tal-Afar is located 60 km west of Mosul.
According to ‘the Guardian,’ Abu Alaa al-Afri had been running the daily affairs of ISIS after the ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi had reportedly been injured in an airstrike last March. However, according to unconfirmed informations, the ISIS top commanders have refrained from accepting Abu Alaa al-Afri as Al-Baghdadi's successor.
According to two Iraqi news agencies, Alghad Press and Al-Youm Al-Thamen (the 8th Day), as well as sources in the Iraqi city of Mosul, Baghdadi died in an Israeli hospital in the occupied Golan Heights where he had been hospitalized for treatment after sustaining severe injuries during a joint attack of the Iraqi army and popular forces.
The sources added that al-Baghdadi has been declared by his Israeli physicians and surgeons as to be now "clinically dead".
The ISIL leaders refrained from accepting Abu Ala Afri as Al-Baghdadi's successor, FNA learned from news sources.
